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The Complete Works of Artemus Ward Part 4, To California and Return

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Artemus Ward

Charles Farrar Browne, a native of Maine, became famous as a writer and lecturer under the name of Artemus Ward. Like his friend Mark Twain,…

06 - Mr. Montagu Naylor of Streatham

In John Dene of Toronto; a Comedy of Whitehall

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Herbert George Jenkins

John Dene comes to England with a great invention, and the intention of gingering-up the Admiralty. His directness and unconventional method…

Chapter I - Marseilles - The Arrival

In The Count of Monte Cristo (version 2)

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Alexandre Dumas

The story takes place in France, Italy, islands in the Mediterranean and the Levant during the historical events of 1815–1838 (from just bef…

CHAPTER VIII - SCULPTURE-IN-MOTION

In The Art of the Moving Picture

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Vachel Lindsay

"This 1922 book by poet and sometime cultural critic Vachel Lindsay might have been the first to treat the then-new medium of moving pi…

Book I, Chapter I, Part 1

In The Octopus

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Frank Norris

Frank Norris based his 1901 novel The Octopus (A Story of California) on the Mussel Slough Tragedy of 1880, a bloody conflict between ranche…

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